THERE was always that one laaitie who only enjoyed playing with the other children if they were winning the game.
Whatever game it was, whether it was cowboys and Indians or hide and seek, if this youngster wasn’t winning, the game was, in their opinion, ‘no fun’.
Being on the losing side would result in them pouting, throwing tantrums, or using the ultimate antidote to losing; the one word that would reset everything and give you an opportunity to start again and hopefully do better.
That word was “nix”.
In the English language, nix means “to refuse to accept something”, and if that laaitie refused to accept the fact that he or she was losing, the nix was hauled out and we’d all have to – reluctantly – go…